Transforming is becoming on me. Do me first. Do your worst.

[leahbobet]

July 28, 2008 Progress Notes:

Saturnalia

Words today: 300.
Words total: 2000.
Reason for stopping: I should get to bed. Dentist tomorrow morning.
Munchies: Water, apricots.

Darling du Jour: (THE DRUG) is hard dreaming. (THE DRUG) was hard dreaming, and now Zeke was awake, and still living after all. It came as a surprise the first few times, and he still wasn't entirely used to it; waking up heavy and sour and in pain, and with the world dulled-off like a bad-used knife.

Things Yet to Cough Up Their Names: The Not!Meth, Gregory's last name, Miss Shirley Sue MacGuffin, Zeke's guitar.
Mean Things: You can't be high all the time!
Research Roundup: Organic decomposition, and then diagenesis. And the world appears to be working in my favour today.
Books in progress: Patricia McKillip, Alphabet of Thorn.
The glamour: Today mostly did not go as planned, but I did manage some edits work on a story and some job-applying.

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Not a lot of words tonight. Most of this is due to the structure finally landing in my head: four sections with little chapterlets in them, and each named, plus prologue and short epilogue. So I went through the few pages of book and notes I have sticking those section names in, and then looked up the last one and it is thematically perfect for both my vague idea of how this all solves and the defining image of the end of the book:

...diagenesis “is the cumulative physical, chemical and biological environment; these processes will modify an organic object’s original chemical and/or structural properties and will govern its ultimate fate, in terms of preservation or destruction."

Ultimate preservation or destruction. That's about right. Thank you, drivethrough universe.

I will now claim my goth points for naming my sections after the stages of decomposition, and hug them to my chest as I avail myself of bed. *g*

Comments

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

Do you want a sorta chemistry-derived name for the not!meth, or are you just waiting for it to tell you its street name?

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Pretty much waiting for the street name. It has only been referred to by these guys as "the stuff", and I'm trying to tell if that's actually the proper name.

Thank you, though. :)